Christmas Books by Charles Dickens
$69.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Nonesuch Dickens
Contains five short stories, of which, "A Christmas Carol" portrays a pantomime victory of good will over evil, guided by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future, and presents such eternally infamous characters as Ebeneezer Scrooge and Jacob Marley.
Hamlet (Oxford School Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
$17.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford School Shakespeare
Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. Hamlet is a popular text for study by secondary students the world over. This ...Show more
Poetry of the First World War: An Anthology (Oxford World Classics) by Tim Kendall (Professor of English Literature, University of Exeter)
$30.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?' The First World War produced an extraordinary flowering of poetic talent, from poets whose words commemorate the conflict as enduringly as monuments in stone. Their poems have come to express the feelings of a nation about the horrors and aftermath of wa ...Show more
Vita Nuova by Mark (TRN) Dante Alighieri; Musa
$16.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Vathek by William Beckford
$19.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Woe to the rash mortal who seeks to know that of which he should remain ignorant; and to undertake that which surpasseth his power!' The Caliph Vathek is dissolute and debauched, and hungry for knowledge. When the mysterious Giaour offers him boundless treasure and unrivalled power he is willing to sac ...Show more
The Lifted Veil, and Brother Jacob: WITH Brother Jacob by George Eliot
$19.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'She had believed that my wild poet's passion for her would make me her slave; and that, being her slave, I should execute her will in all things.' The Lifted Veil was first published in Blackwood's Magazine in 1859. A dark fantasy woven from contemporary scientific interest in the physiology of the b ...Show more
Pot Luck (Pot-Bouille) by Emile Zola
$18.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
This new translation of Zola's most acerbic social satire captures the directness and robustness of Zola's language and restores the omissions of earlier abridged versions. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the glob ...Show more
Major Works by Jonathan Swift
$26.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique selection from the full range of Swift's fifty-year career - prose, poetry, and letters - to give the essence of his work and thinking. ...Show more
Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners by Gustave Flaubert
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Would this misery go on forever? Was there no escape? And yet she was every bit as good as all those other women who led happy lives!' When Emma Rouault marries Charles Bovary she imagines she will pass into the life of luxury and passion that she reads about in sentimental novels and women's magazines ...Show more
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Thus, gentle Reader, I have given thee a faithful History of my Travels for Sixteen Years, and above Seven Months; wherein I have not been so studious of Ornament as of Truth.' In these words Gulliver represents himself as a reliable reporter of the fantastic adventures he has just set down; but how fa ...Show more
The Romance of the Forest by Ann Radcliffe
$24.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Romance of the Forest (1791) heralded an enormous surge in the popularity of Gothic novels, in a decade that included Ann Radcliffe's later works, The Mysteries of Udolpho and The Italian. Set in Roman Catholic Europe of violent passions and extreme oppression, the novel follows the fate of its hero ...Show more
Teenage Writings by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Jane Austen practising' Virginia Woolf Three notebooks of Jane Austen's teenage writings survive. The earliest pieces probably date from 1786 or 1787, around the time that Jane, aged 11 or 12, and her older sister and collaborator Cassandra left school. By this point Austen was already an indiscriminat ...Show more